[stylist] copyrighting your work

[justin williams]

How do you fine time and date stamps on windows files?

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme, James
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:31 PM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] copyrighting your work

Hi Chris,
All files, unless someone tampers with them, are time and date stamped. You
just have to look at the listing or type in a command to get the stamp if
you want to see it.

Thanks.

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris Kuell
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 9:13 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List
Subject: Re: [stylist] copyrighting your work

Hi Vejas,

In my opinion, you don't really need to copyright your work. The reason your
teacher told you this is so that, if someone else publishes your work and
says its theirs, you can prove you wrote it first. However, in a court of
law, you can prove you wrote it first by the time/date stamp that
accompanies everything you save on your computer. So what if your computer
crashes? You could be in trouble then. However, computer whizes can retrieve
almost anything from a computer, so if you really needed to prove it, I'm
sure it could be done. And I'm not sure--does anyone know if when you save a
document to a thumb drive, is it time/date stamped?

Now some people do take the time/energy/money to copyright their work,
especially if it's a novel. I've heard others actually print and mail it to
themselves, because the postal date stamp proves that they wrote it before
it was mailed (it has to remain unopened), but this seems like a waste of
time/energy/money to me.

chris



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